Marvin Gaye classic issued as 4LP box

SDE speculated about the vinyl reissue of Marvin Gaye‘s classic 1971 album What’s Going Onback in October but can now confirm that this is a four-LP set with plenty of bonus material.
This new set includes the original album and the originally rejected ‘Detroit Mix’ (which was issued on the 2001 two-CD deluxe edition and on vinyl for 2011’s 40th anniversary super deluxe). That makes up half the content here, with sides five, six and seven taken up with the live recording from The Kennedy Centre Washington (1st May 1972) and the final side concerned with single mixes and the like.

Unlike The Who‘s Live at Leeds three-LP set this doesn’t appear to be half-speed mastered, even if Amazon France says it is, so hoping to get that confirmed (Update: Universal are advertising it as a half-speed master). Regardless, four records in a hard outer slip case for the 30-35 mark seems decent enough, even if all the audio has been out before, somewhere or other.

This four-LP vinyl box set edition of What’s Going On is released on 25 November 2016.

Side four
16. Right On
17. Wholy Holy
18. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Live At The Kennedy Center (May 1 1972)
Side five
19. Sixties Medley – That’s The Way Love Is / You / I Heard It Through The Grapevine / Little Darling (I Need You) / You’re All I Need To Get By / Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing / Your Precious Love / Pride And Joy / Stubborn Kind Of Fellow
20. Right On

This record was cut using a specialist technique known as half-speed mastering. This artisan process results in cuts that have superior high frequency response (treble) and very solid and stable stereo images. In short, a very high quality master that helps to create a very high quality record. This half-speed master was cut by Miles Showell, the Mastering Engineer at the world famous Abbey Road Studios, and comes pressed as a limited edition 180g 4LP-set with accompanying download card.